RECENT ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE OF THE LIVER

Abstract

The author selects from the extensive recent literature some of the more important contributions to liver physiology, omitting its pathology. He discusses the interaction of the liver with hormones from the other organs in determining the levels of sugar, urea, and protein in the blood; the liver as a source of fibrinogen, pro-thrombin, and heparin; the . relation between the liver and yits. A, D, K, and several of the B complex; the function of bile in maintaining normal levels of fat in the blood; the inaetivation of natural estrogen in passage through the liver; and how the special vascular mechanisms in the liver which control its circulation govern also its metabolism of sugar, lactic acid, chloride, K, O2, and CO2.